RetroFedAfD leader vows to restore German-Russian ties as she eyes chancellery
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If they ever were a class for hypocrisy, they would have to study this lady. She lives in Switzerland with her Asian wife and leads a xenophobic party preaching traditional family values.
not hypocritical at all.
the only goal is self enrichment
sell out to the highest bidder and peddle whatever works
ZombiepirateNazis are like cockroaches: filthy shit-eaters that you have to keep stomping every time they return.
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Unless we prevent that kind of power from existing in the first place.
How?
- Have a hard wealth cap of some arbitrary number, like $10-50 million, enough to comfortably retire on and live a life of luxury, but not enough to buy political power.
- Give workers ownership over the corporations they work for in the form of worker cooperatives (not just an ESOP, but true ownership and governance). This includes trade partners following the same standard if they would like to continue to trade with us (speaking from a US perspective here). The US was able to strong-arm the rest of the world into following their economic model before with the Marshal Plan, and they can do it again.
- Provide a livable UBI tied to inflation along with providing all necessities free of charge, including housing, healthcare, utilities, etc. This will encourage entrepeneurship and artistic creation without the fear of not being able to survive.
- Transition from a representative democracy to a more direct form of democracies. This would effectively eliminate Congress in favor of the people directly writing and voting on laws at all scales of government, from cities and counties all the way to federally. Constitutional amendments can be passed with an 80% popular vote.
- Ban all advertising, especially political adverts.
- Publicize industries that are essential, such as schooling, prisons, food production, power production, healthcare, etc. Ensure that all public workers are paid well.
- Overturn Marbury v Madison (in the US), which currently allows the Supreme Court to effectively enact laws.
- The president should be limited to exclusively make decisions about defensive responses to war, defining defense as a response to a direct attack on native soil. All other decisions pertaining to war are left to the people as a collective, including the power to cancel out a president’s decision.
- The power to vote out any representative of government at any time, should they not comply with the peoples’ demands.
Giving any one person or small group of people the power to rule over a large group of individuals is the source of corruption, whether that power comes politically, financially, materially (one person having unreasonably more resources than another), idiologically (in the form of religious leaders, for example).
If you want to look deeper into this style of governance and need a name for it, check out anarchist idiology, though I consider myself to more “lean” anarchist than anything else. My list of policies are nowhere near perfect or complete, and are just my own, badly organized, America-centric ideas for how a country should be run. For example, I didn’t even touch on policing, and police absolutely have great power over a populace. I think the nordic model of policing and prison is a good compromise between abolishing the police force entirely and the current system in the US, but since that means authority continues to exist, it is not a perfect solution.
talIn current polling for the next general election:
AfD is the top choice for Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_German_federal_election
RN is the top choice for France:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2027_French_presidential_election
And Reform is the top choice for the UK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
All three are far-right parties.
That’s so crazy, because I remember when they were super tiny and were celebrating entering the House of Representatives (Bundestag) and back then I believe CDU was the strongest party.
German economists should examine whether higher gas prices is the cause of Germany’s economic problems. If it is, Merz has to end the boycott of Russian oil and gas. The AfD cannot be allowed to take power. Hitler came to power because the Democratic Weimar Republic could not control inflation.
RecursiveParadoxEven if that were not morally repugnant, RU has no fuel oil and very little gas to export at the moment. They still have crude, but DE doesn’t have the kind of refining capability that would be able to use it fast enough to make any difference.
Is Alice Weidel so stupid that she would propose something that isn’t feasible? She studied economics and business in college.
I’m sure she’s quite smart, but the Ukrainians have severely damaged 7 of the 10 main Russian refineries, and there are massive queues for petrol reported all over Russia.
I’m in the industry, so if you really want me to dig up the stats on gasoline / fuel oil refining in Germany I can get you that. But Germany has been a net importer of refined products for ages and ages, and that alone should tell you something.
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How can this fucking stupid Party be so high in votes… how stupid are we for fucks sake???
To me, I think they have spent years and years coordinating (not just in Germany) with other right-wing parties, tried and tested propaganda mechanics, nailed the language, the target audience, sold the product properly and their target audience responded. The majority of voters who take to this are individuals who often feel disenfranchised by minorities (including immigrants), have limited (if any) tertiary education so they are not critical thinkers, have been led to believe that their current status is because of other forms of government and people not of our liking, and not their lack of education, skillsets etc and so on. This has been used very well in other regions including Africa (Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Senegal), South America (see Colombia incoming, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia), Asia (India, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand) and so on.
Civic education left the building a long time ago and is no longer encouraged.
You’re not wrong, but you’re giving right-wing populists too much credit. Their polling numbers are not just a product of their own efforts, but equally so the result of
So, yes, the far right has been busy in the recent past. But they wouldn’t have come this far if it weren’t for fascists with money supporting them and mainstream politics failing people left and right.
I think this sums it up pretty nicely!
No, it actually doesn’t. In the majority of cases those alleged mainstream and center politics have been right-wing to at best center-right-wing already for decades and they have been bad for as long as most voters can remember. They have not suddenly started abandoning sensible politics or failing people. They are simple continuing the exact same policies of previous decades that fuck over people to make a few rich. It’s not the politics that changed but the amount of people getting fucked for policies benefitting only a very small fraction of people. And the fact that they don’t need to obfuscate their bad politics anymore as bullshit populism is so much easier and more effective as a diversion.
Too many people just cannot accept these points and until they do there will only be a rise. Corruption and condescension by the rich and those who are supposed to represent will bring us all down.
You are right. They have been enabled by fascists. I agree with you on this 100%.
Which is what any party should do, they did nothing new or strange, they simply listen to the people and offered solutions (which would not necessary work or be realizable) occupying a space other parties decided to abandon.
I was at a town hall meeting regarding the opening of refugee shelter in the neighbouhood. Let me tell you how it went.
I went there with two friends, knowing that the owner of the building next to the shelter mobilised in right-wing facebook groups to show up in numbers to show the establishment what the people think.
There was police checking bag for weapons, which was a bit intimidating. When I was inside, the woman next to me told me that last time it was worse, there was security between every row. “If you lose the populations favour I guess thats what you have to do” she said.
On the stage was the SPD mayor, who was admittedly a horrible mayor, he got voted out for some corruption thing some months later.
The only other politician there was an AfD one. He was in the audience, literally on the side “of the people against those up there”, who critically asked uncomfortable questions about murdering refugees.
The building owner stood up and pointed out that an email has been found coming from the mayors secretary to security telling them “to make sure the atmosphere doesnt tilt right”. A groan went through the room. It later turned out that the email was real and in response to the mobilisation in the facebook groups. The mayor risked his neck talking, not really saying anything of substance throughout the whole meeting.
In my corner there was us and some people from the local community center, who sometimes also helped refugees. Towards the end, a person who I’d describe as a Fascho stood up, pointed at us and said “Well it seems like the mayor invited his TAZ-reading fans from antifa as well”. The next day, this was reported like that on Nius.
It was a complete shitshow. And now remember. They do this everywhere. In small towns they stand on the town square during rain with their little tent, just in case someone wants to have a chat.
I say this as a party member of Die Linke. Nobody seems to give a fuck about the disenfranchised except the AfD. For many people, the AfD is the only one that actually talks to and doesnt look down on them. This is not a justification, it scares me. But I can see how people get drawn in like that. What an embarrassment for both the liberal mainstream and the left, who is supposed to cater to the forgotten ones.
First of all, thanks for going to the meeting and opposing those Nazis.
I know this is what you meant too, but I think it’s important to emphasise this: They seem to give a fuck. In reality they are just as bad, if not worse than the other major parties when it comes to actually supporting them.
I can’t verify this, so take it as gossip, but a person who tried to organized a unified voice for a similar issue against AfD at a townhall meeting once, told me that when they entered a meeting, a cop came up to them, told that they need to ask them some questions regarding the safety of the meeting, and he was held there for long enough so they couldn’t properly attend the meeting, so afd person told their speech unapposed.
Again, I don’t know details, how legal it is, or anything, take it with a grain of salt. But in my heart of hearts I kinda believe that
My wife and I have had recent incidents nearly identical to this in NL.
They are being misled by an organized and well funded misinformation campaign on all fronts. They’ve successfully done this in a handful of countries so far, including the UK and USA. Unless access to musk’s brainwashing machine is stopped, it will flip all the morons to the right .
Reason can only do so much against relentless propaganda. The propaganda must be dealt with and the vulnerabilities to such propaganda, within individual’s lives, must be redressed
There’s no party regarding the needs of the middle. Lefty parties cherish asylum seekers or people on wellfare, party because they think it will give them votes. Centrist parties cherish companies, employers. Rightwing parties are (claiming to) mind the middle. Its hard to explain families the parental leave gets cut over and over again but the country has open arms for foreigners. Its hard to explain why a family where both work has trouble to find a big enough flat and they barely see their children over the day while those who dont work get a flat for free with all the time they want. AfDs solution was back to traditional values, which isnt good but better than whatever bullshit we have now. There is another party BSW which wants bigger social security but they didnt make the 5% barrier. So basically people flock to whomever promises to help and didnt fuck them over (yet). The “firewall” against AfD doesnt help as they never had to make difficult descisions but can always yell “we would have made it better”. I can understand theit voters.
Why are you repeating bullshit right-wing talking points here that have nothing to do with reality?
Wow, quite a bit…
The lefty parties want a good life for everyone not just wellfare or immigrants.
If the unemployed are living that well the logical conclusion would be to become unemployed right?
Without the firewall the afd would still blame the other parties till they have the majority…
No I cant understand the voters, history proved time and time again that living in a fascist regime sucks for nearly everyone sooner or later. The C*U and SPD already doubled the amount of immigrants that are getting deported. The amount of immigration is falling for years. The rich are getting richer but sure the problem are the poor…immigrants cost around 7 billions(https://www.bpb.de/themen/migration-integration/zahlen-zu-asyl/265776/asylbedingte-kosten-und-ausgaben/) Bürgergeld is around 50 billions ( https://www.buerger-geld.org/news/buergergeld/buergergeld-rekord-fuer-wen-in-deutschland-was-gezahlt-wird-und-warum-die-kosten-2025-explodieren/) the richest german is worth 47 billions. He nearly doubled his worth in the last five years from 30 billions in 2020 (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_reichsten_Deutschen_(Manager_Magazin))
They have convinced the poor to blame the even poorer. As long as you have someone to look down to…
Germany tried the far right and in the end the country was bombed to shit and divided. I much rather have Merz gutting the social system, then that bullshit.
But yes, Germany needs to really help the middle class a lot more. Taxes on work are among the highest in the OECD. So cutting that would help a lot. Also the tax for buying real estate. So people buy their homes and not rent all the time. But helping the weakest in society is a case of all boats rise with the tide.
Leaving all the fascist stuff aside…how would any of the AfD policies help the middle class? You say
which is true…but have you had a look at AfD policies? Now that’s what I call “cherish companies”.
No. Those Nazi fucks use crazy brainwashing propaganda, likely funded by Russia. There’s no logic to see here. The AfD keeps telling lies, which are so painfully obvious to anyone who can still think for themselves. It is also painfully obvious that their only goal is to get rich and powerful. That’s it. Anyone voting for the AfD is either a disgusting Nazi (as in full blown, Hitler loving Nazi) or brainwashed to believe the lies.
Sure. AfD loves dictatorship, nothing new there, they love hitler too.
No, according to her Hitler was a socialist 🙄
It’s always “funny” when you know what happened to the socialist branch of the Nazi party, also that they admitted pretty openly that they lied and used socialist symbols only to attract the working class
The current authoritianship loves Nazis too.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/1/we-jews-are-just-arrested-palestinians-are-beaten-german-protesters
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/7/we-stand-with-israel-germanys-friedrich-merz-scolds-protester
Authoritarianship invites fascism.
Whataboutery.
It requires a really unique mindset to want to restore ties to the losing party of a war they started themselves.
Like in gaming there’s the insult of calling someone a “win team joiner”, so someone who’s joining the already winning team to get an easy win. This is… the opposite.
Lol, but then it’s a good thing? Like helping out the flailing team to make the gaming experience better? More balanced?
In gaming, sure.
But Nazis/the AfD don’t care about balance or good experience. The leaders only care about enriching themselves. So them still glorifying the losing Russia is just another sign of them being influenced by Putin.
Fucking piece of shit Nazis.
Seems like this rhymes with something?
Ribben ick hör dir tropsen.
I hate that fucking Nazi cunt so much
Ah… the old Divide et Impera. Russians (and americans) don’t want a strong united Europe, so they ofc try to dismantle its forming from the inside… I’d esteem the Kremlin for such a smart move, wouldn’t my skin be in the game.
Traitors. And their voting base keeps cheering this shit on.
The Swiss lesbian leader of the xeno- and homophobic party wants to lead Germany. How perfectly normal
Swiss! Not swabian. She is swiss.
And the funny part, her indian wife advocates FOR queer rights in switzerland.
Neo-liberals, fascists all together spineless opportunists
Good luck, bitch xD
Russia is getting 🔥 right now by modern day Olga of Kiyv carrier pigeons 😘
Putin is just as old and mentally gone as Trump at this point and his few allies have started to turn their backs on him because they fear Ukrainian carrier pigeons visiting their infrastructure.
But I mean, if you insist jumping on board the titanic post iceberg, be my guest. It will be very entertaining to watch 🍿
If it was just them jumping on the Titanic, no problem. But they want to drag all of Germany with them. :/
Call me a dreamer, but i don’t believe that all of Germany will allow this to happen. I might look like a clown in the near future, but I trust that Germany will do the right thing at the end of the day.
We either do the right thing now or the AFD will have a simple majority to do all the shit they want to with. And considering what a shitshow our current chancellor is, I don’t see him doing anything right (except his political views).
Urgh, I hope things turn out right in the end! It sounds exhausting to be German these days. As one of your close neighbors (Denmark) I have always admired the Germans for the wisdom they have carried from ww2 and how it is reflected in art and politics through the decades. Also your ability to not just rebuild yourselves from a horrific past, but earn your place in the European hierarchy in the modern day. It’s endlessly impressive to me and I don’t really get to say this a lot, so forgive me for my simping xD
I just really appreciate our humorless neighbors and I want the best for all of you. I’ll keep hoping for Germany to do the right thing even though there are forces from the outside, trying to nurture forces from the inside to destabilize Europe. And Germany is such an important country for all of us ❤️
I would think most of NL agrees with @nangijala@feddit.dk
What is the benefit of closer ties with Russia, though? There a lot of liabilities there and Russia no longer has an infrastructure to even offer cheap natural resources
Either they are trying to appeal to Eastern Germans where the Russian used to be the main ally or they are influenced by a Russian lobby.
Eastern Germans never seen them as allies. Some friends living in a town with a Russian military base did not seem to happy about them, causing issues and sometimes inconsiderate behavior, yet the east German police would not do anything to upset the Soviet soldiers.
A golden train car or some stupid shit I’d assume
A bag of onions per one human life.
same as in Ukraine. reconstruction contracts.